Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

Hasso Plattner

Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Alex Pareene

Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.

Andrea Bocelli

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Keith Henson

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Bob Newhart

Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'

Meister Eckhart

The more we have the less we own.

Jesse Jackson

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Laurence Sterne

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Erich Fromm

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Herodotus

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Louis D. Brandeis

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Taryn Manning

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

Simone de Beauvoir

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

Isaac Newton

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Matt Taibbi

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Edward de Bono

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

John Ashcroft

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Lou Gerstner

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

John Bolton

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Eve

When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.

Guy Pearce

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Emmanuel Jal

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

Christopher Nolan

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Zack Snyder

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

Rachel Johnson

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Monica Crowley

When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

Dave Eggers

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Amy Chua

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

Irvine Welsh

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Damian Lewis

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

Carl Hiaasen

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Kenny G

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Lou Reed

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Robert Goulet

When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out.

Alex Lifeson

When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

Jessica Valenti

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!